Phoenix Fight: The First Concubine

Chapter 174
So it is not without reason that Qin Shihuang wanted to ask the immortals.

However, she has never seen any emperor who really succeeded.

On the contrary, many people died of poisoning due to taking elixir.

When Murong Wei thought of this, she became restless, "You dare to hide such a big matter from me, don't you know that taking pills is dangerous?"

Qianxi lowered her head, there was nothing she could do, it was the eldest brother who found her, and he didn't let her tell the queen, for fear that the queen would be angry.

Because Hutou knew his father very well, since he did it, it was absolutely impossible for him to stop. This time, even Murong Wei couldn't make him stop.

"Queen, those Taoist priests would definitely not dare to offer poisonous elixir. The emperor will definitely let the imperial physician examine it first, and then let people test the medicine. It will be fine."

Murong Wei stared blankly at her daughter, although she said that it was possible that she was fine, how could it be clear?

Sometimes people do some irrational things that seem unbelievable to themselves, and at that time they are called stupid.

"How did your father think of alchemy?"

Murong Wei didn't think it was necessary for Xiao Mingrui to do this, since he's not in his late [-]s or [-]s, is there a need to do this?

"Send someone to ask the emperor to come over at night, I have something to discuss with him." Murong Wei explained in a deep voice.

Aunt Yue and Nanny Zhao are getting old, Murong Wei has already let them go out of the palace for the elderly, but now it is Dong Yu who needs to be around her. She was married before, but her husband passed away early, so Murong Wei let them go again. She entered the palace to do things, and now she is the most qualified around Murong Wei.

Dong Yu listened to Murong Wei's order, so he asked people to go to Qianqing Palace first, and asked Xiao Mingrui to come to Kunning Palace at night.

Qianxi said in a low voice: "Mother, there is no way to talk about this matter, Father has always kept it a secret."

Murong Wei said angrily: "He is afraid that I will know, and he is guilty."

The rain outside the window was continuous, and it gradually became smaller in the evening.

When Xiao Mingrui came, it was the time when the clouds harvested the rain.

After entering the Kunning Palace, he saw his wife was resting with her eyes closed, and her youngest daughter, Qianxi, was reading to Murong Wei with a book.

"The First Emperor...sent Xu Fu to the East China Sea to search for immortals, in order to live forever...died in the car, Zhao Gaogao used salted fish to cover up his smell..."

Xiao Mingrui was taken aback, and he stopped in his tracks.

Qianxi lowered her head to read, and after a while, she raised her head and asked, "Queen, why did the first emperor ask the immortal?"

Murong Wei said quietly: "Because he wants to live forever and there are too many things he wants to do. However, mortals in this world are mortals after all, and it is impossible for them to become immortals. So he was deceived by those alchemists."

Qianxi nodded: "But are there really no gods in the world?"

"Maybe there are, but if there are such people, they probably won't appear in front of mortals. They must be practicing in the deep mountains and great swamps."

Qianxi said longingly: "It must be very powerful, just like the myth said, it can move mountains and seas..."

Murong Wei didn't answer her, she turned her eyes and said, "The emperor is here."

"Royal father!" Qianxi hurriedly got up to salute.

Xiao Mingrui nodded: "Qianxi, you go back first, I have something to tell your mother."

"Well, after the parents, the daughter will leave first." Qianxi looked at her parents, she was eager to leave quickly, God knows if there will be a quarrel later.

The little girl turned around and left in a hurry. Murong Wei asked someone to serve tea, and said with a smile: "The new Pu'er tastes really good, Your Majesty, try it."

Xiao Mingrui picked up the teacup but didn't taste it. He just looked at his wife and sighed, "You know everything?"

"Know what?" Murong Wei asked lightly.

Xiao Mingrui smiled wryly, "It's about alchemy."

She was there to make her daughter read about Emperor Shi Huang asking Xu Fu to go out to sea to find the gods. If he still couldn't understand the accusations, he would really be an idiot.

But he will never regret this matter, now he would rather try a lot, than have nothing to do by then, right?
Although Murong Wei didn't change anything, she still looked at him with a smile, but Xiao Mingrui already knew that she was really angry this time.

"Your Majesty is divinely endowed, now I want to refine the elixir, and I will become an immortal in the future, and then I will see if one person can ascend to the heavens, and bring the courtiers and concubines to see what the fairy world looks like."

She spoke softly, sipping tea slowly.

Xiao Mingrui changed his mind and said, "Wei'er, this matter is actually not as complicated as you think. Although it is alchemy, it is not a magic pill, just some nourishing pills."

"The emperor is sure, have you seen the imperial physician?"

Murong Wei doesn't believe this, there may be a lot of heavy metals added to those pills when they are refined, and these are harmful to the human body, Murong Wei doesn't believe that taking it for a long time can prolong life, but it is very possible to die early.

Otherwise, how could so many people die because of taking the pill!

"The imperial doctor has also seen it, and there is no major problem, and I have had someone try it..." Xiao Mingrui stopped talking here.

Murong Wei asked: "Does the Emperor really want to live forever?"

Xiao Mingrui shook his head: "Eternal life is so misty, I never thought about it."

"Then why do you want to refine the pill?"

Xiao Mingrui had his own reasons in his mind, he didn't want to tell Murong Wei about this matter, after all, speaking out would only increase her troubles, and it would also add to her heart's burden, maybe she would get sick when she was not sick.

"I just read some records in medical books recently, and I want someone to try it. It just so happened that the real Zhang from Longhu Mountain came to Beijing, so I asked him to try it. Don't worry, I don't plan to eat it."

Murong Wei looked at him suspiciously, "It's hard to say, husband, people's hearts are not satisfied. As long as there is that thing, you will use it sooner or later. I can't watch you do this."

Xiao Mingrui smiled wryly: "Forget it, since you don't like it, I'll let someone remove it."

Murong Wei breathed a sigh of relief: "Really, other things are negotiable, but this is not okay. I can't watch husband and you go astray. I don't know how many people died because of taking pills in the past. How can this be done?" Really?"

Xiao Mingrui nodded and said: "Don't worry, I understand too, would I be joking about my own life?"

Only then did Murong Wei feel relieved, and said angrily, "You are true, but you frightened me. If you want me to say, if you really want to take care of your body, imperial doctors are much more reliable than those Taoist priests."

Xiao Mingrui comforted his sweet wife, but no one knew what was going on in his heart.

But Murong Wei didn't notice his strange emotions, she only knew that the Taoist priests there left the next day, and no one was making alchemy at the East Sixth Bureau.

Murong Wei specifically asked Xiao Luzi who was serving beside Xiao Mingrui, knowing that Xiao Mingrui did not take those pills, so she was relieved.

Then, when Murong Wei's foot injury had just healed, a major event happened.

The earthquake in the five provinces, the entire Central Plains region suffered heavy losses due to the strong earthquake. This earthquake not only affected the capital city, but also felt it in the south.

There is no exact figure, but it is known that the number of people who died in the earthquake was definitely over [-], and the local government was almost paralyzed at the beginning of the earthquake. Even Xiao Mingrui could not be calm when such a big thing happened. Come down, and as the emperor, he has to do a lot of things.

When the earthquake first appeared, it affected such a wide area and caused so many casualties, Xiao Mingrui had no choice but to condemn himself, because the ancients believed that the earthquake was a warning from the heavens, and that was because the monarch had no way.

It doesn't count if you have issued an edict of guilt, but you still have to fast and deal with state affairs. With so many casualties, Xiao Mingrui was so busy that he didn't even have much time to sleep for half a month.

But after half a month, there were aftershocks in some places. This time the capital also collapsed a lot of houses. Murong Wei was also busy during this time, calling on the ladies to donate money and goods, and to get some earthquake notices for Xiao Mingrui. He discussed some practical anti-plague prescriptions with the imperial physician.

Because it is summer, it is easy to cause plagues, and plagues often follow earthquakes, which cannot be ignored.

Fortunately, after a period of hard work, although satellites and airborne can not be used to save people like later generations, and the number of deaths is also high, the aftermath work has been done well, tents have been set up for disaster relief, and food donations have been done well.

After this incident, these places will be tax-free for at least one or two years, and will be subsidized by the court.

The weather was hot, Murong Wei had been busy for a while, and fell ill.

Fortunately, it was just a minor illness, some fever and cold, but Xiao Mingrui was still very nervous for a few days, but he was relaxed when he saw that there was no serious problem.

The weather was sultry and hot, and there was not even a gust of wind in the evening, and it looked like it was going to rain.

Murong Wei was recuperating in the Kunning Palace, but now the weather is hot and the ice basin has been put on but it didn't relieve much. Murong Wei was holding a fan in her hand and was fanning it intermittently. There was a maid beside her He brought sour plum soup and asked her to taste it.

Murong Wei was not in the mood to drink, and asked, "Has the Emperor not returned from the Temple of Heaven?"

Originally, everything has been busy recently, but who knows that it has not rained for seven or eight days, Xiao Mingrui is really unlucky, rain, wind and earthquake have nothing to do with him, so today is going to the Temple of Heaven to pray It was raining, and it was so far away, so he still walked there.

The weather was sweltering today, and it was even hotter during the day. At this time, Murong Wei really prayed to God that it would rain immediately, otherwise, it would be raining overnight when the house leaked, and when the boat was broken, it would be the headwind.

"It seems that the emperor has returned."

Murong Wei was still not at ease, and was thinking about sending someone to ask, when Dong Yu hurried over and whispered something in Murong Wei's ear.

"The emperor has heat stroke?" Murong Wei was taken aback, and said anxiously: "When did it happen, and how is it? Have you invited the imperial physician?"

Dong Yu said: "I just got the news that I have invited the imperial doctor. The main reason is that the weather is too hot today. The emperor walked more than ten miles all the way. He was dressed formally, with three layers inside and three layers outside. I haven't had a good rest, I'm overworked, and I'm suffering from heat stroke."

Murong Wei got angry in a hurry, cursed in a low voice, tell me, what is so good about being the emperor, and everyone is still vying to do it!

She was anxious and couldn't care about anything else, so she immediately took people to Qianqing Palace in a hurry.

At this moment, the sky was filled with dark clouds, and I don't know whether God was moved by Xiao Mingrui's painstaking efforts to get rain or if he really heard her voice, it seemed that the wind was blowing the treetops, and the cool wind was blowing, and it was really about to rain cats and dogs.

Murong Wei secretly said, God, please open your eyes, don't cause any more trouble.

Thinking so in my heart, when I arrived at Qianqing Palace, the rain had already started.

The heavy rain dissipated the heat of the world, and it was very cool at this moment. Murong Wei had just arrived at the door when she saw Du Ang, the number two eunuch in the Qianqing Palace, talking to the imperial physician, so she rushed forward to ask about the situation.

"How about the emperor's dragon body?"

Du Ang hurriedly said: "If you go back to your mother, the emperor has been diagnosed and treated by the imperial physician and is fine. He just needs to rest and rest in the Xinuang Pavilion."

Murong Wei responded, and went straight to Xinuang Pavilion.

Hurrying to Xinuang Pavilion, the rain has already poured down, the sound of rain is shaking the sky, accompanied by bursts of faint thunder, making the sky bright.

In the Xinuang Pavilion, Xiao Mingrui was lying halfway on the cool couch, wearing a cotton jacket from Songjiang, his face was a little flushed, obviously suffering from heat stroke.

Fortunately, I have just drank the medicine, and my complexion will be better than before.

Lu Fei took the booklet and came over, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent military situation just now."

"read."

"It's the barbarians who have invaded again."

When Xiao Mingrui heard this, he frowned immediately. He opened his eyes, took the memorial and read it, with a hint of anger on his face: "These bastards are so cloudy, they actually want to take advantage of the fire! Damn, can't they treat them like I can?"

As he said that, he remembered to summon the ministers, but just after heatstroke, his whole body was weak, and now he just got up and had no strength at all, how could he get up?

Lu Fei hurriedly helped him up, "Oh my lord, you are a sick person now, you can't worry about it anymore, you just leave this matter to the cabinet."

Xiao Mingrui took a breath, and said: "Go, call the people from the cabinet, I want to discuss state affairs."

"But, Your Majesty, your body..."

Lu Fei looked at him worriedly, Xiao Mingrui can't do this now, it's easy to get into trouble.

Lu Fei originally wanted to say that there is still a prince, but seeing Xiao Mingrui like this, he obviously doesn't want people to know that he is sick. God knows how many things are waiting for him to make a decision. Although the prince is also capable, Xiao Mingrui has already asked him to do disaster relief. , he has no free time either.

"Go!" Lu Fei had no other choice, and was about to invite the cabinet scholars, Xiao Mingrui said again: "Yesterday...bring me the elixir that I bought."

Luffy couldn't help being a little worried: "Your Majesty, do you want to use it?"

Xiao Mingrui nodded: "Bring it here, I don't have the energy right now, but the elixir is good for refreshing me, and I'm really tired recently."

Lu Fei responded, went inside and took a small white jade bottle, opened it, and took out a pale golden medicine.

The elixir was golden in color and had a tangy aroma. Xiao Mingrui swallowed it into the water, and suddenly a figure pushed open the curtain and rushed in, looking at him with an extremely ugly expression. With a shake of his hand, the pill bottle fell on the table.

Murong Wei was furious, seeing that he actually wanted to take some kind of pill, but felt like five thunderbolts, she was so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas were born in the sky, accompanied by the sound of rain outside, she roared angrily Get up: "Xiao Mingrui, what did you promise me? You actually eat this thing?"

At this time, she was so angry that she couldn't choose what to say, how could she not be in a hurry?
Seeing her beloved eat such a dangerous thing, Murong Wei almost went crazy.

Especially Xiao Mingrui had promised her not to take the elixir and drove the Taoist priest away, but today, what she just heard let her know that he was completely obedient, and this was not the first time!

Xiao Mingrui paused and did not answer her words.

Lu Fei was watching the situation, so he could only go forward and persuade him: "Ma'am, this elixir is fine, the imperial doctor has seen it..."

"Get out of this palace, you don't have a place to speak here!" Murong Wei said angrily, "You are so brave, you dare to feed the emperor this kind of food, do you want to murder the emperor?"

Lu Fei was so frightened that he knelt down and begged for mercy: "No, no, this slave has absolutely no intention of doing so, your mother is wronged..."

Xiao Mingrui said in a deep voice, "Lu Fei, go out."

Luffy didn't dare to stay any longer, and quickly crawled out.

Xiao Mingrui just took the elixir, but he felt much better. He sat up and said, "Wei'er, listen to me, this medicine is not as scary as you think, I..."

Murong Wei rushed up and grabbed the jade bottle, opened it and poured out the pills. When she saw the golden color of the pills, she took a closer look and went mad with anger.

With a cold face, she shook her hands and said, "How long have you been taking such a pill? It's not that scary, yes, it's not that scary, and it won't eat dead people for a while, but it contains heavy metals, which accumulate in the body. Sooner or later It will kill people!"

Look at the golden color, it is clearly heavy metals added, God knows what, maybe there are things commonly used in alchemy such as lead, mercury and mercury, although there are some medicinal ingredients that are suitable for the human body, but they can't offset the addition of heavy metals question.

Eating it for a short time will not be harmful, and it will refresh people, but if it takes a long time, if heavy metals are not eliminated, the person will die easily.

"Wei'er, what you said is too sensational. What is heavy metal? I don't think there's anything wrong with it, and I don't take it often. It's just that I've been too busy recently. After the earthquake, I have to deal with a lot of things. I just want to refresh myself."

Although Xiao Mingrui didn't have the intention of attaining enlightenment and becoming an immortal, he didn't refuse the pills that could cure diseases and preserve health.

Murong Wei was anxious and angry, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she ran out. After a while, Xiao Mingrui saw that she had someone bring a cat.

"The emperor said that this elixir is fine, dare you let me try it?"

Xiao Mingrui frowned and said, "I've tried it before, and no one has problems eating it."

Murong Wei said coldly: "This concubine has to give it a try, otherwise I will never give up today!"

Xiao Mingrui felt a little helpless, "Wei'er, you don't have to do this, it's not like I intend to cultivate Taoism and become a fairy..."

Murong Wei ignored him, and asked the eunuch to bring a bowl, crushed all the pills in the jade bottle, added some cat food, mixed it and fed it to the cat.

Seeing that she gave the cat a whole bottle of pills, Xiao Mingrui smiled wryly. One must know that refining this thing took a lot of precious herbs, and now it is used to feed the cats, which is really a waste of money right?
Moreover, Xiao Mingrui still had one thing on his mind that he hadn't told Murong Wei about. Now he just wanted to refine an effective pill for others to use, and the bottle in front of him was just a matter of chance.

But Murong Wei didn't understand his painstaking efforts, Xiao Mingrui was extremely unwilling to prove that there was something wrong with the elixir. Although he had recovered after taking the elixir, he seemed a little irritable. Watching the cat eat the food made him feel unspeakably uneasy, he longed for this thing to be okay, at least it proved that he was right, at least it proved that he did not make a mistake in choosing this method.

But as the cat ate up all the food and meowed around Murong Wei, Xiao Mingrui seemed relieved and relieved, and said with a smile: "Look, isn't this a waste of things? I see that you are worrying unfoundedly."

Murong Wei didn't speak, just watched quietly from the side, the rain was pouring down outside the window, and it still didn't stop, and Xiao Mingrui was bored, so she was a little embarrassing at the moment.

But the good times didn't last long. Not long after, the cat suddenly rolled on the ground and cried out in pain.

Xiao Mingrui was startled, and his face suddenly turned ugly.

Murong Wei took a deep breath, "This cat is poisoned."

Although those erysipelas were not intentional, one will not be obvious, and many together, the cat's resistance is not as strong as that of humans, and it will die soon.

Not long after, the cat died.

"Your Majesty, can you still say it's okay now? You really disappointed me. I really can't believe that the person in front of me is actually my husband. Are you still that Xiao Mingrui? Why did you become like this? "

Murong Wei accused him disappointedly, she couldn't understand why Xiao Mingrui did this.

He obviously doesn't look like such a stupid person!

When You Qi thought that this bastard was actually taking medicine without telling her, Murong Wei was furious: "You use yourself as a test subject, have you ever thought about me and your child? What if something happens to you, what shall we do? "

Xiao Mingrui stared blankly, as if something had been shattered in his heart, a feeling of disillusionment fermented in his heart, and that irritable mood became more and more serious, and eating that kind of elixir would obviously make people angry Ascension, especially because he is suffering from heat stroke at the moment, coupled with the disillusioned hope, the pressure of fear brought about by that incident for a long time, suddenly vented at this moment, making Xiao Mingrui suddenly lose control of his emotions.

"That's enough! It's not up to you to control what I want to do. I'm the emperor. You have no right to criticize what I want to do, the queen!" He growled, feeling a little crazy and out of control, and shouted excitedly at this time : "Murong Wei, you don't know anything, why are you accusing me? Do you know, do you know? I have nothing to do..."

Murong Wei looked at him incredulously, he was angry at her?
Just because of this, he actually told her, why should she take care of him, it's not her turn to take care of him?

He has never said such a serious word to her. In his whole life, he has been tolerant and doting to her, and he has never said such a word.

Now hearing what he said, Murong Wei couldn't believe it at first, and then she was shocked. Is this crazy man in front of her her husband?

"Okay, I'm not qualified to take care of it, am I?" Murong Wei laughed angrily: "No way, what can you do? Is it the recent earthquake? In your life, you have encountered more troublesome and busy times than this. , I didn’t see you taking pills at that time! Once you take the first time, there will be the second time. If you take the first time, you will have the second time. Don’t say now that you don’t want to become a fairy, sooner or later you will go for it On the road of no return! Xiao Mingrui, can you wake up?"

She walked over to help him. At this moment, she thought he was completely unconscious. She wanted to wake him up. To make him understand, this dangerous thought must be completely eliminated.

Xiao Mingrui only felt that there was a fire burning in his heart, the flames were burning wildly, his whole body was hot, and his emotions were out of control. At this moment, he couldn't listen to anything, his hope was shattered, and the feeling of oppression in front of him made him extremely angry from embarrassment Feeling, he can't think of it, if he can't find a way, what should he do?
At this moment, he wished he could rush into the heavy rain outside and put out the fire.

"I'm sober!" He pushed her away, gasping for breath, "Go out, I don't want to see anyone now!"

Murong Wei was pushed almost to the ground by him, she looked at him in disbelief, "Why, what's wrong with you? Do you still want to take the elixir? Do you want to die?"

Xiao Mingrui roared angrily: "I will not die, and no one will die!"

He chased people away angrily, and Murong Wei was almost pulled out.

She couldn't believe it until she got out of Xinuang Pavilion. Looking at the rain in the sky, she felt like she was dreaming.

The person in front of her was too strange, how could he be her husband?
How could he be her husband?
How could the person who always loved her and held her in his hands reprimand and yell at her so much and drive her out?
Her heart was sore and painful, why, is it that the elixir has such a great charm, and it makes him become like this when he is alone?
Murong Wei returned to Kunning Palace in a daze, the sky had already darkened, the entire Forbidden City was lit up, and the gorgeous palace looked very desolate in the night.

Murong Wei is sitting in the palace, she has been sitting there for a long time without moving.

Suddenly she opened her eyes, and there seemed to be two balls of fire in those black eyes, "Go, arrest those bastard Taoist priests for me, and smash all those alchemy things!"

She is also full of anger now, thinking of those Taoist priests causing her husband to become like this, Murong Wei hates her teeth so much, she doesn't care about anything at this time, as a queen, she has a lot of power, she has already learned at this time, The current alchemy room is located in Xiyuan, which was originally a place for recreation, and few people go there, but it is still within the scope of the imperial palace.

(End of this chapter)